Impatientism

by R Wisdom and P Vaughan

Acrylic on Canvas
18" x 18"
(2006)

Ray and Patrick pulled off an impatientist masterpiece when they completed "Meddle" in a cigarette and bourbon fueled impatientist session to which I was sadly not a party.  But all the better because "Meddle" is nothing like any previous impatientist work.  The stark vertical white line was created by absence.  That is, the canvas was sheathed with a streak of painter's tape so that when Ray and Patrick went about attacking it with a blind arsenal of deep-ocean trench colors they could not have possibly covered the area submerged in tape.  How that last little dollop of blue Hershey's Syrup ended up covering part of the cordoned-off area we may never know.  Was it a mistake?  Was it purposeful?  Was it catalyzed by a dare and a shot of Old Crow?  Who's counting.

I bought this painting from the duo.  I won't say how many thousands it cost me but I will say that it sits above my reading chair in my humble University City, MO abode and damn, I just love this fucking painting.  I believe one day I will put it in my Navarre, FL beach house.  Other than the white stripe, my favorite part of the painting is the aguamarine suggestion of tide-pool snorkeling that pre-dominates the left hand side of the painting.  It is such a peaceful green patch of shallow water that I want to fall asleep in every time I see it.

This is a "strong" impatientist work, which is to say it is perfectly impatientist.  The colors were chosen blindly out of the now-infamous "Paint Bag."  Further, the artists wore winter masks over their faces and did not see what effect their hands and minds were having on the canvas as they worked.